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<blockquote data-quote="GTRX7" data-source="post: 621956" data-attributes="member: 1045"><p>It does't make us look dumb because that is the same way every single team in every single sport does it. Nobody announces butts in the seats. Every team announces attendance as tickets sold. Why? 1) it makes the number higher and 2) that is what actually matters for revenue. I agree that turnstile counts and actual attendance are very important, but those numbers are simply not publicly reported on a regular basis. Not by Tech, not by other college teams, not by anybody.</p><p></p><p>Since at least 1992, MLB teams announce only tickets sold. In fact, the MLB, NBA and NHL usually report not just tickets sold, but also distributed, adding complimentary tickets -- for players’ families, league officials, sponsors and such. In the NFL, they used to have a "sell-out" or "blackout" policy, meaning, not only did NFL teams report only tickets sold, but they would find ways to artificially inflate those numbers to reflect a sellout to avoid blackouts. I don't know if that blackout policy still exists, but it is still certainly the policy of every team to announce sales, not attendance. (e.g., <a href="https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/02/25/falcons-actual-attendance-fell-well-short-of-announced-attendance/" target="_blank">the Falcons</a>).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTRX7, post: 621956, member: 1045"] It does't make us look dumb because that is the same way every single team in every single sport does it. Nobody announces butts in the seats. Every team announces attendance as tickets sold. Why? 1) it makes the number higher and 2) that is what actually matters for revenue. I agree that turnstile counts and actual attendance are very important, but those numbers are simply not publicly reported on a regular basis. Not by Tech, not by other college teams, not by anybody. Since at least 1992, MLB teams announce only tickets sold. In fact, the MLB, NBA and NHL usually report not just tickets sold, but also distributed, adding complimentary tickets -- for players’ families, league officials, sponsors and such. In the NFL, they used to have a "sell-out" or "blackout" policy, meaning, not only did NFL teams report only tickets sold, but they would find ways to artificially inflate those numbers to reflect a sellout to avoid blackouts. I don't know if that blackout policy still exists, but it is still certainly the policy of every team to announce sales, not attendance. (e.g., [URL='https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/02/25/falcons-actual-attendance-fell-well-short-of-announced-attendance/']the Falcons[/URL]). [/QUOTE]
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